<h3>General</h3>
<ol>
+ <li> <p>
+ Removed: The forward declarations files have gone. We have never
+ propagated their use in the example programs, but these files have been
+ there in the base, lac, and grid include directories, and forward
+ declared all classes that were present in the respective parts of the
+ library. This, the idea was, enables you to use just this include file
+ in your own header files, rather than including the full declarations of
+ these classes. However, maintaining these forward declaration files has
+ been a constant thorn in our side, be it that the timing of their
+ generation was difficult when using parallel builds, or that they were
+ difficult to generate at first. The latter is now the reason for their
+ abolition: we had a script for their generation, but it did not take
+ into account namespaces, so we got clashes when we found that we had
+ used the same class name in two different namespaces, since the script
+ put the forward declaration incorrectly into the global namespace where
+ they conflicted. Since we do not plan to extend the script by a
+ parser that can properly handle opening and closing braces of
+ namespaces, we simply drop these files.
+ <br>
+ What you should do if you have used these forward declaration files: you
+ have two possibilities - either include the respective header file in
+ which the class is fully declared, or write the forward declaration into
+ your headers yourself.
+ <br>
+ (WB 2002/09/05)
+ </p>
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